There is a “freezer” test described in other thread by one of the members to test if the flashlight is waterproof:
- Take out the battery and unscrew tailcap to let air in
- Put the flashlight in freezer for few minutes
close the tailcap, take it out and put it in warm water 40…50C
The air inside will expand and if there is a leak you will see bubles going out of the flashlight. This way you can know for sure if your flashlight is waterproof in hot spring. And even if its not the expanding air won’t let water in unless you leave there for too long.
I like the drop it in a flooded farm row trick lol Then turn it on and see if it still works. I see they advertize these lights as weapons in a lot of sales. If you banged it around while it was hot- I wonder if the led would jump off the pcb xd I was just thinking about that cause that wouldn’t be a weapon- it would be like 60 dollars and you still get shot!
But no, seriously, light + water = win. Haven’t you ever taken a candle-lit bath? Marvelled at the way a fountain looks under a strobe light? Reflected light off the waves from just above the surface to amplify them up onto a wall like a giant watery sunset? Watched the source-reflective water droplets dance around the floor like a thousand little spheres of ball lightning?
One kind of interesting thing I did after experiencing the PWM can make rain look different and surreal, especially bad PWM in a light. I turned off the bathroom light and leave the room lit only by the PWM light…some modes make the water look kind of neat, some modes make shower streams look like sparse droplets or broken lines of water. Of course I’ve only done this once with high lumen lights, I’m not sure moon mode would work to give enough contrast …except to show you your moon maybe.
OK I wondered how long it would take before someone followed up on the flashlight in the shower comment. My mind certainly wandered until someone finally asked the question and it was answered.
I consider my flashlights as tools and expect them to work under adverse conditions. And if I were about to have my life depend on the ability of my light to work under adverse conditions I would be testing them in heat, cold and water. But since I’m not in the armed services or a mountain climber I would never take my flashlight into the shower or a hot springs. My experience with water is that one really can’t tell when water will have a negative effect today and not tomorrow so why take the risk. That said, I would bend my rule if the shower contained the right person.
Hey some of us name our lights, not every one I build but some of the most special ones, I know I’m not alone either, right off the top of my head Dale has “Texas poker”.
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